Hosea 13

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁴ Yet I have been the ^(K)Lord your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know ^(L)any god except Me,
For there is no savior ^(M)besides Me.
⁵ I ^[g](N)cared for you in the wilderness,
^(O)In the land of drought.
⁶ As they had their pasture, they became ^(P)satisfied,
And being satisfied, their ^(Q)heart became proud;
Therefore they ^(R)forgot Me.
⁷ So I will be ^(S)like a lion to them;
Like a ^(T)leopard I will ^[h]lie in wait by the wayside.
⁸ I will encounter them ^(U)like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear open ^[i]their chests;
There I will also ^(V)devour them like a lioness,
As a wild beast would tear them.

⁹ It is your destruction, O Israel,
^[j]That you are ^(W)against Me, against your ^(X)help.
¹⁰ Where now is your ^(Y)king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your ^(Z)judges of whom you ^[k]requested,
“Give me a king and princes”?
¹¹ I ^(AA)gave you a king in My anger
And ^(AB)took him away in My wrath.

¹² The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is ^(AC)stored up.
¹³ The pains of ^(AD)childbirth come upon him;
He is ^(AE)not a wise son,
For ^[l]it is not the time that he should ^(AF)delay at the opening of the womb.
¹⁴ Shall I ^(AG)ransom them from the ^[m]power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
^(AH)O Death, where are your thorns?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
^(AI)Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

¹⁵ Though he ^(AJ)flourishes among the ^[n]reeds,
An ^(AK)east wind will come,
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will ^(AL)become dry
And his spring will be dried up;
It will ^(AM)plunder his treasury of every precious article.
^16 [o]Samaria will be held ^(AN)guilty,
For she has ^(AO)rebelled against her God.
^(AP)They will fall by the ^(AQ)sword,
Their little ones will be ^(AR)dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant ^(AS)women will be ripped open.